"I would say with my co-publisher hat on looking into 2013, it's Superman's 75th anniversary," Lee told Comic Book Resources. "So we wanted to do a lot of great things with Superman in the coming year and expand the number of books we put out under his name.

"From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire. I've been following Scott's work on American Vampire where I actually did the variant for the first issue, and I followed him straight through to Batman where I loved the way he introduced new mythology and made it seem so seamless and like it'd been there forever."

Artist Bryan Hitch seemingly confirmed the team-up earlier in the week, although it is yet to be confirmed that the series will operate under the rumored Man of Steel title.

Action Comics will be receiving a new creative team of Andy Diggle and Tony S Daniel.